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Zusatztext this book exhibits the stylistic virtues that readers have come to expect from Beiser's work! above all the virtue of clarity of exposition Informationen zum Autor Frederick C. Beiser studied for his BA and DPhil at Oxford. He has taught at seven universities during his career--Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, Indiana, Yale, Harvard and Syracuse--and has researched for many years in Germany, where he was a recipient of Thyssen and Humboldt fellowships. Klappentext This is the first history in English of German historicism, the intellectual tradition which holds that history is the key to understanding all human values, beliefs and actions. Beiser surveys the key thinkers from the mid-18th to the early 20th century and illuminates the sources and reasons for this revolution in modern thought. Zusammenfassung This is the first history in English of German historicism, the intellectual tradition which holds that history is the key to understanding all human values, beliefs and actions. Beiser surveys the key thinkers from the mid-18th to the early 20th century and illuminates the sources and reasons for this revolution in modern thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Concept and Context of Historicism 1: Chladenius and the New Science of History 2: Justus Möser and the Roots of Historicism 3: Herder's Historicism, its Genesis and Development 4: Humboldt the Proteus 5: Savigny and the Historical School of Law 6: Ranke's Romantic Philosophy 7: The Historics of Johann Gustav Droysen 8: Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human Sciences 9: Wilhelm Windelband and the Forces of History 10: Rickert and the Philosophy of Value 11: Emil Lask and the End of Southwestern Neo-Kantianism 12: Simmel's Early Philosophy of History 13: Max Weber and the End of the Historicist Tradition Bibliography
